Seaside will start negotiating with a familiar developer who wants to build on 76 acres of the city's Fort Ord land.

The Seaside City Council late Thursday voted 4-1 to grant exclusive negotiating rights to KB-Bakewell Seaside Ventures for the 50-acre "Surplus II" site south of Gigling Road and 26 nearby acres south of Lightfighter Drive.

Councilman Alvin Edwards cast the dissenting vote. He said Friday he wanted the city to seek proposals from other developers who might be interested in the 26-acre site.

"We're not following our own procedures that we developed," he said. "I just like to be fair to everybody."

City staff members had recommended a formal solicitation of project proposals for the 26 acres, but the council went with KB-Bakewell for both sites.

The development group, which built the 380-home Seaside Highlands nine years ago in Seaside, proposed about 400 to 500 homes for the Surplus II site and a mix of retail and restaurants on the 26-acre site.

KB-Bakewell had been in negotiations earlier for the Surplus II land, but those talks were thrown into limbo by the state's shutdown of local redevelopment agencies in 2011.

A council report took issue with KB-Bakewell's proposal to use the entire Surplus II site for residential development, saying a mix of uses would be preferable on the land next to CSU Monterey Bay.

City Manager John Dunn said Friday that the developer had agreed to change plans for both sites — putting various uses on Surplus II and "some limited residential" on the 26-acre site.